The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Delhi

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
2295 Family Life Akhil Sharma 2014 Indian English
2539 Clear Light of Day Anita Desai 1980 Indian English
2973 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga 2008 Indian English
6444 Mystical Dimensions Of Islam Annemarie Schimmel 1975 Unknown English
8647 The Raj Quartet Paul Scott 1976 British English
10189 Immigrant, Montana Amitava Kumar 2017 American English
11046 My Seditious Heart Arundhati Roy 2019 Indian English
11500 Azadi Arundhati Roy 2020 Indian English
11663 The Association Of Small Bombs Karan Mahajan 2016 Indian English
11663 Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World Ramachandra Guha 2018 Indian English
12077 Basti Intizar Husain 1979 Pakistani Urdu
13736 Christianity In The Twentieth Century Brian Stanley 2018 British English
13743 Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art James Hall 1974 British English
14232 In Custody Anita Desai 1984 Indian English
14458 The White Man’s Burden William Russell Easterly 2006 Unknown English
14788 The Wonder That Was India Arthur Llewellyn Basham 1954 British English
14949 Freedom At Midnight Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins 1975 Multiple English
14985 India: A Million Mutinies Now V. S. Naipaul 1990 British English
14985 Ornamentalism David Cannadine 2001 British English
14985 The Great Partition Yasmin Khan 2007 British English
14985 The Last Mughal William Dalrymple 2006 British English
14985 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
14985 Ultra Processed People Chris van Tulleken 2023 British English
15916 The Agrarian System Of Mughal India Irfan Habib 1963 Indian English
15916 An Introduction To The Study Of Indian History D. D. Kosambi 1956 Indian English
15916 Constitution Of India Indian Government 1950 Indian English
15916 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15916 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
15916 Alberuni's India Al-Biruni, Edward C. Sachau 1030 Multiple Arabic
16550 Handbook Of The Birds Of India And Pakistan Salim Ali, S. Dillon Ripley 1968 Multiple English
16535 Mahabharata Ganguli, translator 1883 Indian English
17163 Delhi Khushwant Singh 1990 Indian English
17163 The Veiled Suite Agha Shahid Ali 2009 American English
17163 Corridor Sarnath Banerjee 2004 Indian English
17163 Collected Poems, 1970 2005 Keki N. Daruwalla 2006 Indian English
17163 Difficult Daughters Manju Kapur 1998 Indian English
17163 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17163 New Writing In India Adil Jussawalla 1974 Indian English
17163 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17163 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
17163 The Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth J. West 1997 Multiple English
17163 Temptations Of The West Pankaj Mishra 2006 Indian English
17163 The Perishable Empire Meenakshi Mukherjee 2000 Indian English
17163 Diddi: My Mother's Voice Ira Pande 2005 Indian English
17163 On Balance Leila Seth 2003 Indian English
17163 The Climate Book Greta Thunberg 2022 Swedish English
17163 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
16808 India Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Padma Desai 1970 Unknown English
17163 The Idea Of India Sunil Khilnani 1997 Indian English
17163 A Taste Of India Madhur Jaffrey 1985 British English
17163 Politics In India Rajni Kothari 1982 Indian English
17163 The Spirit Of Indian Painting B. N. Goswamy 2014 Indian English
17163 India Unbound Gurcharan Das 2000 Indian English
17163 Indian Food K. T. Achaya 1994 Indian English
17163 Women Writing In India Susie Tharu, K. Lalita 1993 Unknown English
17163 Five Point Someone Chetan Bhagat 2004 Indian English
17163 Recasting Women Kumkum Sangari, Sudesh Vaid 1990 Unknown English
17163 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
17163 India John Keay 2000 British English
17163 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17163 History Of Medieval India Radhey Shyam Chaurasia 2002 Indian English
17163 A Corner Of A Foreign Field Ramachandra Guha 2003 Indian English
17163 Ancient History Of India Charles J. Naegele Unknown English
17163 A Textbook Of Medieval Indian History Sailendra Nath Sen 2010 Indian English
17163 A History Of Medieval India Satish Chandra 2007 Indian English
17163 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17163 The Other Side Of Silence Urvashi Butalia 1998 Indian English
17163 Midnight's Furies Nisid Hajari 2015 Unknown English
17163 The Pity Of Partition Ayesha Jalal 2013 English
17163 Age Of Vice Deepti Kapoor 2023 Unknown English
17163 Free Speech Jacob Mchangama 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Chaos Machine Max Fisher 2022 Unknown English
17163 Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World Jack Weatherford 2004 American English
17163 The Lion And The Lily Ira Mukhoty 2023 Unknown English
17163 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
16912 A History Of Civilizations Fernand Braudel 1963 French French
17163 The Moghul Thomas Hoover 1983 American English
16808 Shadow Of The Moon M.M. Kaye 1956 British English
17163 Raj Gita Mehta 1989 Indian English
17163 The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet Vandana Singh 2009 Indian English
17163 The Genius Of Their Age S. Frederick Starr 2023 Unknown English
17163 India’s Techade Nalin Mehta 2023 Unknown English
17163 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2023 British English
17163 Courting India Nandini Das 2023 Unknown English
17163 Destinations Jan Morris 1980 British English
17163 The Women's History Of The World Rosalind Miles 1988 British English
17163 The Tao Of Cricket Ashis Nandy 1989 Indian English
17163 In Light Of India Octavio Paz 1995 Mexican Spanish
17163 Like Hidden Fire: The Plot To Bring Down The British Empire hopkirk 1994 Unknown English
17163 Life And Words Veena Das 2006 Indian English
17163 रश्मिरथी Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' 1981 Indian Hindi
17163 History Of Modern India Bipan Chandra Indian English